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3 Universities Adopt Trumba for Event Communications
3/8/2007
University of Maryland Law School, Taylor University, and William Patterson University have all recently adopted Trumba Corp.'s Trumba Connect technologies to enhance event-based communications on their websites.Trumba Connect is an online event calendaring system that provides interactive, two-way communications for sharing event information. It's designed to help increase event awareness and provides a suite of tools that includes a hosted interactive Web calendar, e-mail and reporting. Calendars can be created for public viewing, and visitors to the sites can also use the technologies for creating their own personal calendars, setting up RSS feeds, and subscribing to events notification via e-mail.
Other features include:
- Calendar creation for individual types of events to suit specific constituencies;
- Event reminders;
- Notifications for changed events; and
- The ability to create password-protected calendars.
University of Maryland Law School, Taylor University, and William Patterson University join a number of higher education institutions that have recently implemented Trumba Connect, including, most recently, the Philadelphia University.
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